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Connotations of facial expressions
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Quick quest, has the connotations of various facial expressions remained mostly the same for around the last 500 years or so?

If we were to analyse this picture using our interpretation, we would see a Voltaire, smug and sarcastic about the claims of the holiness, Roman-ness and imperial-ness of a certain political entity in Central Europe.

What would've contemporaries like Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great seen in this facial expression, however?
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>>1338635
*question
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>>1338635
He has always been seen as smug and sarcastic, so we may reasonably suppose that his expression in this painting was meant to convey the same impression.
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Either that or he just let out a sick fart.
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>>1338635
sad contempt for the world around him.
Eyes somewhat downcast, half smile that looks like a thinly veiled frown, brow scrunched with dismay.
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>>1340696
This. Not pic related.
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>>1339191

Autism

>>1340696
Bingo
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